Our Innovationedge team is excited to invite you to our upcoming event: The Innovation & Growth Leadership Summit: Collaborating for Transformative Growth – Inside, Outside and Across Organizations, April 25-26, 2016 in Chicago has been designed to focus specifically on the challenges of senior R&D leadership. This one-of-a-kind Summit will bring together executives from organizations…
One of the areas our IE team watches is the Food and Beverage industry. The trends we’re seeing for the coming year continue to focus on health, but with a decadent spin. FoodBevMedia has posted these trends that you may want to watch – and sample: 10 indulgent US food and beverage trends for 2016…
Do you watch trends, or do you delegate that to someone else? My friend Robert Tucker is encouraging managers to redouble their trend-watching capabilities in response to an ever-increasing degree of technological, social and economic change: Here’s the good news: with a bit of focused attention, you can build skills in this area such that…
Would you live in a home made completely out of paper? It’s not flimsy by any means, when you consider the technology of 3-D printing that can make the architecture sturdy and even beautiful. Machine Design reports that several companies are building livable homes like these from the inside out using 3-D printing: The idea…
Here’s an exciting invention that uses nanotechnology and 3D printing – as a pen. It’s called CreoPop, and it’s not like most 3D pens I’ve seen. With CreoPop’s 3D printing pen in hand, you can create multi-dimensional pictures and structures freehand, in real time. CreoPop uses nanotechnology to provide an exciting range of inks including glittering…
Consumers of fast food meals are used to the drill: You eat, you throw your garbage away and you leave. But what about all those styrofoam cups? You can’t recycle expanded polystyrene, and it does not decompose in landfills. Good news: Chick-fil-A restaurant has found a way to answer that dilemma with an innovative solution….
Every once in a while, a product comes along that makes you say, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Innovationedge is working with a local Appleton start up, TecDriven, LLC that is marketing one of those products. TecDriven has launched their first product called TORCHGRIP Classic. TORCHGRIP is a removable, multi-function tablet accessory for devices…
Is it 3-D printing? Nanotechnology? Green innovation? The technology gurus over at Edge.com have put out their Top 10 edgiest innovations for 2016. You may be surprised by some of the answers given by the 197 scientists polled in this survey. Which ones stay with you? Which ones can you harness for your own innovation…
By blowing extremely small bubbles, researchers from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have found an efficient way of producing so-called liposomes – microscopic bubble-like structures often used to deliver medicine, but also a key to generating artificial cells.
A lot of news organizations are telling us what will be hot in 2016. Last year at this time they told us that smart watches would change the way we do business and manage our personal lives. I would not say that this has happened, although we did see smart watches become more mainstream. So…
